COMMERCIAL DESCRIPTION
Bamberg’s speciality, a dark, bottom fermented smokebeer, brewed with Original Schlenkerla Smokemalt from the Schlenkerla maltings and tapped according to old tradition directly from the gravity-fed oakwood cask in the historical brewery tavern.

Although I am not particularly a fan of smoked beers, this one I really liked. While you drink it, you feel the taste of barbecue smoke coming from the glass, followed by a pleasant sweetness and gentle texture of a quality beer. Bottle. Good one.

A wonderfully interesting beer, though not going on my essential list. It pours a clear, mid-dark brown colour, with not much head.The smell is rich and malty, oozing a powerful overtone of smoked ham. The smoked tone is very dominant in the taste, reminding me of smoked Bavarian or Austrian cheese--the ones with bits of ham in. This is very entertaining, but then my tastebuds began searching for the malty notes I associate with Bavarian brown beers, and they weren't much in evidence. So my opinion is that this is a wonderfully smoky beer--you're not going to be disappointed on the smoky front, as I have been with some supposedly British smoked beers--but that the smokiness dominates the taste so much as to inhibit the complexity of the beer. In short, for me the smoky flavour is admirably gung-ho, but at the expense of anything more layered. Definitely an experience, though--a fun beer, if not one I'd choose to drink often.

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